by Clare Johnson | May 18, 2017 | Inspirational Stories, Wild Women
Well, what should I do now? I had always envisioned myself being married one day (preferably to Tom Hardy), with little sprogs, owning a dog and living in a beautiful home. My desire and anxiety in achieving this picture perfect life grew stronger as I got older. Why...
by Emma Frampton | Mar 24, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
Warning: the below involves scenery porn, hills galore, insane headwinds and stretches of quietness! Keep reading if curious… Almost a year ago to the day, as I was travelling to Inverness to participate in the Rat Race Coast 2 Coast event, I stumbled across an...
by Laura Maisey | Mar 9, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
This is the question I got asked the most prior to leaving for my trip (running from Rome to London), to the extent that I wrote this post about my thoughts on female solo adventuring (link). It would be careless of me, then, not to report back, pos t-trip, about...
by Catherine Edsell | Feb 28, 2017 | Inspirational Stories, Wild Mums
‘BC’ The first time I heard the term ‘BC’ and realised that it no longer stood for ‘Before Christ’, but ‘Before Children’, I laughed – and then cried. I was at some awful NCT mothers coffee morning, blocking the aisle in Starbucks with my gaily coloured all-terrain 3...
by Sally Biddlecombe | Feb 14, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
If you had told me 4 years ago that I would be working as a Horse Trekking guide in the stunning Dart Valley near Queenstown, New Zealand, I wouldn’t have believed you. I’d been to university, got the degree and landed what I though was the ‘dream...
by Alice Williams | Aug 12, 2016 | Inspirational Stories
Got the right food, the right clothes? How’s the weather? Everything with the car hire ok? How are my knees? Have I slept enough? Of all these things running through my head before setting off for our adventure – wanting to get going trumped them all. I fancied...